Andean Aymara

Just for fun: Here’s a visualization of the “Enchanted Spring” story as a frequency-weighted word-cloud (though morphemes are not taken into account).

Interesting online software available for free at Wordle

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Just about a week before I head off to Peru to conduct the second stage of this project. Muylaque and Sijuaya seem so far away from the Canary Islands.

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Uppsala University has an interesting workshop planned:
¨The workshop has two goals. First, to discuss the recent advances in Language Documentation -what it implies, how is it different from traditional language description, how technological resources can be a tool in documenting lesser-known languages. Second, to create a forum in Scandinavia for those who are working on endangered [...]

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Elizabeth Lowe (LAS) and M.J. Hardman (Linguistics) received a $156,992 three–year grant from NSF’s Documenting Endangered Language program to preserve the Jaqaru and Kawki languages of Peru.

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Peter Austin has an interesting post titled “Glossed texts - the fiddle factor” posted 7 Sept 2008. Indeed, most transcriptions are not a perfect match for the audio. Not only would such a document be hard to read by anyone not a discourse analyst, but it would take a lot of time to create. [...]

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The Yale Daily News reports Wednesday that a third round of talks which took place last week between Peruvian delegates and Yale officials to determine the future of archaeological artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago did not reach any resolution. In fact, both sides seem more intent on [...]

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Miguel Huanca, the author of an excellent Aymara textbook Aymar arux akhamawa gives a maxim on a site called RedePapa in a brief article entitled El Espiritu Aymara. Protector de los Productos. 
Janiw jaqex qolwempex kuns kamachkaspati; kunatex qolqerox janiw yapuchapksnati, janirakiw qolqx nq’apkaraksnati, t’urkaraksnasa
He glosses this in Spanish: ‘el hombre no puede hacer nada con el dinero, porque [...]

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Peruvian, Polish and American scientists have discovered what they believed to be pre-Inca tombs and archeological remains during a 10-day expedition to a never-before-explored area of Peru’s Colca Canyon

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